It took the jury nine days to arrive at a verdict: ship captain Jean‑Pierre Alarie has been declared guilty in the case of a passenger who drowned from his boat on a river excursion in July 2024. Various failures by Alarie in the state of the boat and its operations are explained in the piece, […]
After nine long days of obviously difficult deliberation, the jury finally found the boat captain Jean-Pierre Alarie guilty of having caused the death of a tourist because of his criminal negligence on Saturday afternoon at the Montreal courthouse.